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It is difficult for the united states to be all of equal power and extent.

Baron de Montesquieu

The severity of the laws prevents their execution.
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Execution Law Philosophical
There is hardly any grief that an hour’s reading will not dissipate.
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Grief Hours Reading
Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.
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Disposition Prejudice Reason
There is only one thing that can form a bond between men, and that is gratitude… we cannot give someone else greater power over us than we have ourselves.
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Gratitude Men Ties
Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.
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Law Liberty Philosophical
There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.
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Mathematics Three Triangles
The spirit of moderation should also be the spirit of the lawgiver.
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Law Philosophical Spirit
Slavery, properly so called, is the establishment of a right which gives to one man such a power over another as renders him absolute master of his life and fortune.
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Giving Men Slavery
Wherever I find envy I take a pleasure in provoking it: I always praise before an envious man those who make him grow pale.
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Envy Men Praise
When a government is arrived to that degree of corruption as to be incapable of reforming itself, it would not lose much by being new moulded.
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Corruption Degrees Government
The English are busy folk; they have no time in which to be polite.
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Busy Polite Time
The prejudices of superstition are superior to all others, and have the strongest influence on the human mind.
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Mind Prejudice Superstitions
If you would be holy, instruct your children, because all the good acts they perform will be imputed to you.
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Children Holy Imputed Instruct Perform
Slowness is frequently the cause of much greater slowness.
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Causes Greater Slowness
Christianity stamped its character on jurisprudence; for empire has ever a connection with the priesthood.
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Character Connections Jurisprudence
Republics end through luxury; monarchies through poverty.
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Luxury Republic Tyrants

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